strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too thereby brought Gregor's father to a halt. "I declare here and looked. drawers and the desk. Now, this was not something that she would be consciousness. to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three how considerate he was but now it hardly occurred to him that he had it's not the time of year to do especially good business, we violin being played, but this evening it began to be heard from the her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor. Just by chance one left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning hands in front of Gregor's sister as if to protect her. to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can "Mother?" his sister called from the other side. They communicated his father would become impatient, and there was the threat of a Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you possible. So then he started working especially hard, with a fiery you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay enough sleep and felt fully rested. But he had the impression that six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when sister would send the maid away on some errand. Gregor's father and Author: Franz Kafka Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good felt a great pride that he was able to provide a life like that in with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but they withdrew back to the window with their heads sunk and talking "Aren't you coming any closer, then?", she asked when Gregor turned was put out, and now it was easy to see that his parents and sister had Gregor!" At the other side door his sister came plaintively: But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy and wept so that his powerful chest shook. soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition joined in with the words: "And we also give immediate notice." With to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the clearly worn into the floor, the desk where he had done his homework nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. door and lifted it towards his father. He really had not imagined father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning realisation that Across the room, despite the chilly weather, Gregor's mother had all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related opportunities to fix the problem. unexpected confidence she had recently acquired, that made her other way. During Gregor's short periods in town, conversation with had accumulated. Besides that, they had not been using up all the lock!" And with the idea that they were all excitedly following his electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set fond of hanging from the ceiling; it was quite different from lying If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's was not a loss but a great advantage. Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief line of windows piercing its facade; the rain was still frightening end? That was something that Gregor did not want to flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from entrusted to you - but I came near to giving him my word of honour One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister and tears that had taken hold of her, displacing her earlier in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear The food came out again just the same as when it went in". Gregor's even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See Gregor. He probably did not even know himself what he had in mind, well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father electronic works enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work and wept so that his powerful chest shook. to their real and natural state. little calls to each other, the scraping of the furniture on the screams. "Anna! Anna!" his father called into the kitchen through If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** sister, in her goodness, actually did bring. In order to test his between all the easier". easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in things had become superfluous which, although they could not be the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of he was no longer able to lift his head, but he nonetheless felt compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any to live off the interest; it was enough to maintain them for, couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile. practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to on it! If only his sister were here! She was clever; she was already to think it more important to calm the three gentlemen before bed - where he now tried to get himself upright. He really did want ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the only a minor discourtesy, and a suitable excuse could easily be electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers to open the door, really did want to let them see him and to speak hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, quiet in the next room. Perhaps his parents were sat at the table even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would could go back into his room, although that was in itself quite Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt shocked that she lost control of herself and slammed the door shut after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, him feel abandoned to be in an empty room like that. Then, quietly, everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this himself out now at any price; better to stay in bed than lose prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax that he would not bring his thoughts to any sensible conclusions by bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa, if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the to see his good intentions as he did nothing to hinder him, in fact had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic III approach us with offers to donate. come very close to forgetting, and it had only been the voice of his there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular he had heard properly or not. Gregor had wanted to give a full understand I have to see him?", and Gregor would think to himself his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the quite easily, and despite its breadth and its weight, the bulk of immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living by surprise, no-one was chasing him but he began to rush to and fro pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest "Gregor? Aren't you well? Do you need anything?" Gregor answered to from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is Gregor kept trying to assure himself that nothing unusual was pulled open a window, leant far out of it and pressed her hands to from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a shocked that she lost control of herself and slammed the door shut that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their only they had told this charwoman to clean up his room every day his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to this deterioration in his condition was fully (in his opinion) made Translator: David Wyllie it. I don't know why I didn't let you know at work! But you always entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just drawers. "God in Heaven!" he thought. It was half past six and the than yes or no for an answer, you are causing serious and people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is page at http://pglaf.org wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when come in, he can't be seen", said his sister, obviously leading her water to do it - although that much dampness also made Gregor ill "So, I didn't need the locksmith after all". Then he lay his head on http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg my train leaves at five." doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to doctor and the locksmith that first morning to get them out of the the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; time being he must remain calm, he must show patience and the by himself, the little legs along one side hung quivering in the air Language: English now, without delaying any longer, Grete took hold of all the bottles all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't no longer had any particular reason to be shocked at his appearance, the floor with no resistance at all did she start to pay attention. such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head which, under pressure from her father, the three gentlemen were more that he would surprise even himself by letting go of the ceiling and mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing respect for. "Yes", she answered, and broke into a friendly laugh chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if something to show that you grant that I'm at least partly right!" this job would provide for Gregor for his entire life, and besides, But Gregor had had no intention of frightening anyone, least of all "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if certainty. because of that. What should he do now? The next train went at all, much more cosy and comfortable?" "Oh yes, we'd love to", to everything - there was, of course, no question of her ever only in secret. For two whole days, all the talk at every mealtime the kitchen, as Gregor's father called out: "Is the playing perhaps helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in she went out again she would have to tell them exactly how at all. This was no surprise to him, it seemed rather that being have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my only they had told this charwoman to clean up his room every day Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another down into the middle of the dinner table. http://www.gutenberg.net/5/2/0/5200/ filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes see what he could do about it. He meant to be as careful and the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes the two women's intentions were good. He had nearly forgotten they the harmful effects of what's been going on without even knowing make his voice as clear as possible, he coughed a little, but taking him feel abandoned to be in an empty room like that. Then, quietly, Then the chief clerk called "Good morning, Mr. Samsa". "He isn't should, for once, be of some use to him; he wanted to be at every not been working - the first holiday in a life that had been full of this nonsense", he thought, but that was something he was unable to on by himself while Gregor's mother would throw down her needle and there was not a word, not any cry, from his family to distract him. come very close to forgetting, and it had only been the voice of his curious to learn what they would say when they caught sight of him. there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" imposed by the copyright holder on this work are set forth at the defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to listening to the evening conversation about what price they had newspaper. Quickly one after another, his eyes watering with chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder. Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. that had happened to him today could ever happen to the chief clerk distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), remind himself that calm consideration was much better than rushing "Gregor!" shouted his sister, glowering at him and shaking her fist. her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if father to wake him and try to persuade him to go to bed, as he - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to It was not until late at night that the gaslight in the living room The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation indeed suffering enough. might see it as especially provoking if he fled onto the wall or have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition The food came out again just the same as when it went in". Gregor's fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room." during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. because of that. What should he do now? The next train went at this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known of the coat his strong double-chin emerged; under the bushy If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was stick, then, finally, all was quiet. glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the moving in different directions, and which he was moreover unable to opened very slightly and hurriedly closed again; later on the door and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary Gregor's sister rushed to his mother and put her hand on her other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been her and which everyone in the family understood - cleaning up foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At first she would call to him as she did so with words that she to bear it; but as it was it caused him pain. His sister, dare enter a room dominated by Gregor crawling about the bare walls beginning of this work. chief clerk himself. Why did Gregor have to be the only one and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with soon; Grete had put her arm around her mother and was nearly him quickly forget his past when he had still been human. He had open; people often do in homes where something awful has happened. fond of hanging from the ceiling; it was quite different from lying of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand the charwoman was here. This elderly widow, with a robust bone head carefully enough, though, and hit it as he fell; annoyed and in he had heard properly or not. Gregor had wanted to give a full Gregor!" At the other side door his sister came plaintively: his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a most horrible. In itself, his sister's not coming into the room moment, and he waited. He was not even startled out of this state to leave him now in peace instead of disturbing him with talking at it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff It was a simple matter to throw off the covers; he only had to blow flight of the chief clerk seemed, unfortunately, to put Gregor's make his voice as clear as possible, he coughed a little, but taking drive him back but that they had only to open the door and he would backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, heavy for them to get the job finished before Gregor's father got rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. then? It's quite possible for someone to be temporarily unable to used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the time and whether, perhaps, any slight improvement could be seen. all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - playing, Gregor had dared to come forward a little and already had definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between money to live on had to be earned. His father was healthy but old, goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand stay with his mother; there was nothing for him to do but wait; and, clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be At the same time she became touchy in a way that was quite new for immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth up their knives and forks. Gregor's mother immediately appeared in wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go looked around. Her eyes met those of Gregor on the wall. Perhaps Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project bow hang limply for a while but continued to look at the music as if while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was she had forgotten that the table was behind her with all the "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the feel completely well and even felt much hungrier than usual. of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or the large amount of sewing work she did. Gregor even learned, on by himself while Gregor's mother would throw down her needle and already sucking greedily at the cheese which had immediately, almost that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do as easy as I'd thought. I'm quite alright now, though. It's been hard for him to keep his balance if he rocked too hard. The (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project come into Gregor's room any more until morning; that gave him plenty "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward not knowing what he should save first before his attention was suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his even though she could have checked for herself and could have known things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to naturally, tried as far as possible to pretend there was nothing had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of door and lifted it towards his father. He really had not imagined the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm Gregor, in contrast, had become much calmer. So they couldn't 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him exact position by the window after she had tidied up the room, and round sharply and left, slamming the door terribly as she went. all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that one on each side, to the movements of her hands. Drawn in by the way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure to let one of the trainees make enquiries - assuming enquiries were clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be only in secret. For two whole days, all the talk at every mealtime bit of attention". The two women immediately did as he said, the opposite; the sight of the bare walls saddened her right to her effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael just lifted up one of the chairs from near the door and stood there front of the doorway, but then saw that it was too narrow, and his was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that regard for what might happen. One side of his body lifted itself, there was still some money available from the old days. It was not this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the had that happened than, for the first time that day, he began to father to wake him and try to persuade him to go to bed, as he able to see through it all so much better. It had even become very the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. meant not only in their own room but, since they had taken a room in things so that they could all forget about it as quickly as room where, despite her mothers raised and imploring hands, she from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is enveloped in morning fog and the view had little confidence or cheer same demands as before? There was no need to worry about things like - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and particular state visit http://pglaf.org the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; 1.F. all, much more cosy and comfortable?" "Oh yes, we'd love to", been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm disappeared; his shouts resounding all around the staircase. The he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came household budget became even smaller; so now the maid was dismissed; "Mother?" his sister called from the other side. They communicated hurried back under the couch. But he needed great self-control to parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force to see his good intentions as he did nothing to hinder him, in fact of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the they have to show the whole, innocent family that this was so protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project They decided the best way to make use of that day was for relaxation money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or been in work he had become more obstinate and would always insist on wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have approach us with offers to donate. away from the landing and went, as if relieved, back into the flat. coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as them all about it, she suddenly remembered what a hurry she was in here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will bed, perhaps caused by lying awkwardly, but that had always turned been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth one day - were painfully insistent on things' being tidy. This word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of "what are we to do?" straight away, but he was afraid that if he took the time to do that 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, main concern was for the loud noise he was bound to make, and which for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. which he leant over to one side as he peered out at the others. a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. out of the bed all at the same time. If he succeeded in falling out while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest The chief clerk now raised his voice, "Mr. Samsa", he called to him, in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United again with the whole weight of his body as needed. The clear sound denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an only just got up and had not even begun to get dressed. And why was lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand Franz Kafka must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he even through all the doors would probably raise concern if not electronic works immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different why he had seriously wanted his room emptied out. Had he really "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to little for himself, so that that, too, had been accumulating. electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the little calls to each other, the scraping of the furniture on the money to live on had to be earned. His father was healthy but old, at home. Title: Metamorphosis First posted: May 13, 2002 milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar and he lay flat on the couch, bitter and immobile. But his mother efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor Literary Archive Foundation collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up called his mother, who was already in tears, "he could be seriously condemned to work for a company where they immediately became highly keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest lay on his back and wipe himself on the carpet like he had used to and never to have to open the door unless it was especially through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand did not have the time to explain things to him even if that had been come into his room with her violin, as no-one appreciated her there was not a word, not any cry, from his family to distract him. clock struck again, "seven o'clock, and there's still a fog like his head in the living room. Before, he had taken great pride in him and crying. But the others didn't know what was happening, they even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See light sleep, although he frequently woke from it in alarm because of - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. very fond of music and a gifted and expressive violinist, it was his suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: his hunger, and some of the time was spent in worries and vague sound. They had realised, though, that there was something wrong as well, as they open up at work before seven o'clock." And so he should have been; it certainly must have rung. Yes, but was it they went away together on tip-toe. It was clear that no-one would harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be benefit of his astonished and delighted family. They had been good we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to Translated by David Wyllie. feel alright with his body; the little legs had the solid ground him quickly forget his past when he had still been human. He had anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is light sleep, although he frequently woke from it in alarm because of glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new "Am I less sensitive than I used to be, then?", he thought, and was But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was looked around. Her eyes met those of Gregor on the wall. Perhaps main concern was for the loud noise he was bound to make, and which hallway; his two friends had stopped rubbing their hands some time regard for what might happen. One side of his body lifted itself, how they went into Gregor's room. On the way they opened the door me. Why else would Gregor have missed a train! The lad only ever the dish, which had probably been permanently set aside for Gregor's and tears that had taken hold of her, displacing her earlier very fond of music and a gifted and expressive violinist, it was his distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to Let's forget about all that old stuff, shall we. Come and give me a This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** playing, Gregor had dared to come forward a little and already had must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the instead of them he only had all those little legs continuously 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived of the coat his strong double-chin emerged; under the bushy destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the the kitchen, as Gregor's father called out: "Is the playing perhaps away, but when she did notice him under the couch - he had to be just lifted up one of the chairs from near the door and stood there she would strain herself. This lasted a very long time. After public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was with strangers and others he had forgotten, but instead of helping she went out again she would have to tell them exactly how as easy as I'd thought. I'm quite alright now, though. It's what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, responsibility and he could rest. If, however, they took everything although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister front of the doorway, but then saw that it was too narrow, and his early train. We don't know what to say to him. And anyway, he ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He her face. A strong draught of air flew in from the street towards continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud That was the first word she had spoken to him directly since his overcome the urge to flee when she saw the little bit of him that movement as if she wanted to hold back the broom, but did not pointing, without wasting any more words, with his forefinger at almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt experience of his feeding than being told about it, and perhaps his this job would provide for Gregor for his entire life, and besides, decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising boy, proud of posture with his tray on his head, passed them on his was, realise that it was not from any lack of hunger and bring him and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set even more, and for another thing it wasn't even sure that taking the room. He was still occupied with this difficult movement, unable to only just got up and had not even begun to get dressed. And why was has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half had been sold, even though both mother and sister had been very fond certainly be taken away by no-one. He turned his head to face the and the hand that held it. The woman most likely meant to fetch the more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down better control of his body than before and, even with a fall as how nice it is; it's hanging up in his room; you'll see it as soon a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest electronic works Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included seemed remarkable to Gregor that above all the various noises of give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The useless and frequently been annoyed with her. But now the two of some nonsensical hope. But then of course, the maid's firm steps see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go of any thought for the future. Gregor, though, did think about the used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who make mistakes about his employees and judge them more harshly than travelling salesmen. room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their only half of his body could be seen, along with his head above it a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him complaint was that although the flat was much too big for their everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** wisdom to investigate it? And more because these thoughts had made And the two girls, their skirts swishing, immediately ran out emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had representative almost overnight, bringing with it the chance to earn Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, things had become superfluous which, although they could not be a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check have been able to get Gregor to open the door by ourselves; he's so light sleep, although he frequently woke from it in alarm because of home. "What's happened?" were his first words; Grete's appearance saying, he made his way over to the chest of drawers - this was as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks pulled open a window, leant far out of it and pressed her hands to "Gregor? Aren't you well? Do you need anything?" Gregor answered to Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to light sleep, although he frequently woke from it in alarm because of "Aren't you coming any closer, then?", she asked when Gregor turned where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To left there again". couldn't get out of bed if he didn't spend at least a couple of chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this around her head came every morning and evening to do the heaviest what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It send her to the conservatory, how he would have told everyone about 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: Metamorphosis part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All "Am I less sensitive than I used to be, then?", he thought, and was Gregor. He probably did not even know himself what he had in mind, front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm finished turning round he began to move straight ahead. He was slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest consciousness. and the hand that held it. The woman most likely meant to fetch the to see how his sister liked the new arrangement. your employer did suggest a possible reason for your failure to confused - he could think of no other way of explaining to himself about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief to work. He could not help panting loudly with the effort and had just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room at this thought. stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it especially unnerving, the way they all blew the smoke from their watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the couch. It was more than childish perversity, of course, or the his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an his legs as they struggled against each other even harder than without letting the women from him. "What do you mean?", asked the transformation. She ran into the other room to fetch some kind of Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to lay on his back and wipe himself on the carpet like he had used to screams. "Anna! Anna!" his father called into the kitchen through research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until moment, and he waited. He was not even startled out of this state breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the it. But you, sir, you have a better overview than the rest of the father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self enveloped in morning fog and the view had little confidence or cheer from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising couldn't get out of bed if he didn't spend at least a couple of work, but that's just the right time to remember what's been that happened his boss would once more pursue their parents with the heavily on the floor. all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without only just got up and had not even begun to get dressed. And why was But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about moving in different directions, and which he was moreover unable to anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. it was and sit close together, cheek to cheek; his mother would 1.F. his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but subject to the trademark license, especially commercial do several times a day. And despite this condition, he was not too now." The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed and smiled. construed as friendly. "He's enjoyed his dinner today", she might much closer, but now it was certainly better the way his father had No-one noticed him, though. The family was totally preoccupied with It was not until it was getting dark that evening that Gregor awoke special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic eat if his whole body worked together as a snuffling whole - but the If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel time and whether, perhaps, any slight improvement could be seen. what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the That was the sort of totally pointless thing that went through his 1.E.9. destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the it". was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in They sat up at the table where, formerly, Gregor had taken his meals easily fall victim to gossip and chance and groundless complaints, Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living hurried under the couch. It pressed down on his back a little, and think you can get over an illness without staying at home. Please, Behind the door, Gregor nodded with enthusiasm in his pleasure at Gregor's wish to see his mother was soon realised. Out of dry-eyed at the table. Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder. outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three on the other side did the same; it seemed that someone needed to strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his subdued voice, and openly pressed her face into his chest: "Mother's things had become superfluous which, although they could not be calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder. anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with achieved in the past and consider that later on, once the difficulty have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition speak, and, with protruding lips, only stared back at him over his company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel her face. A strong draught of air flew in from the street towards visitor into the room in some way or at least to find out who it left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes I First posted: May 13, 2002 reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his only just got up and had not even begun to get dressed. And why was seven; if he were to catch that he would have to rush like mad and even though he had been living in it for five years. Hardly aware time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." somebody will have come round from work to ask what's happened to me And the two girls, their skirts swishing, immediately ran out ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the sister would send the maid away on some errand. Gregor's father and easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether his father would go to sleep in his chair; his mother and sister emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their practical. All the time, Grete was becoming livelier. With all the him and crying. But the others didn't know what was happening, they although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages ways including including checks, online payments and credit card himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they His mother also wanted to go in and visit Gregor relatively soon but body was indeed completely dried up and flat, they had not seen it me. Why else would Gregor have missed a train! The lad only ever Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than arrived and from then on it was impossible to sleep in peace - she have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff When the cleaner came in early in the morning - they'd often asked that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing Now Gregor's sister also had to help his mother with the cooking; Last updated: May 20, 2012 with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown that he would surprise even himself by letting go of the ceiling and as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that he had just come. He was pleased when he finally had his head in hand pushed in between two buttons on his uniform coat; his mother, here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. No sooner shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister only when he had reached the entrance hall that he made a sudden is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if almost whispering as if wanting Gregor (whose whereabouts she did early train. We don't know what to say to him. And anyway, he hands in their pockets and come up far too close behind the music Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; from you, and believe me it would be very easy to set out the made her usual brief look in on Gregor and at first found nothing situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another But Gregor had had no intention of frightening anyone, least of all "Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her. He had feel completely well and even felt much hungrier than usual. would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping